What has ten fingers, autism, synesthesia, a crush on Enya, lots of Mario games, thousands of regrets, a feeling of worry about being judged for almost everything, and a tendency to write blurbs that become outdated quickly?

Me!

...You're not laughing. Have you heard this one already?

Anyway, in my journal, at first almost all of my entries were public, but lately I've been making more and more of my entries friends-only, usually if they're about things I worry (MAYBE too much) about. I never really intended for it to turn out that way, hence why I didn't put up any sort of "this journal is semi-friends-only" notice until just now (July 2015).

But I didn't get around to doing so until now when I had the idea of archiving just a few posts at a time.

I can't guarantee I'll stick to an update schedule, but my plan is that every week, on Tuesday or Wednesday (for two reasons: I thought of this plan on a Tuesday, and Miiverse was shut down at a time that for me was midnight between a Tuesday and a Wednesday), I'll post an entry with a few of my Miiverse posts in it, starting from my first posts ever and going in chronological order.

(Currently I'm planning on it being five posts at a time except whenever posting four or six instead better separates my archive into easy-to-describe time periods like "12/25/2012" or "July 2014". Though I might group all Miiverse posts from the same day together even if there's a lot of them, as opposed to "all Miiverse posts from MM/DD/201Y before HH:00" or something one week and "...MM/DD/201Y after HH:00" the next week. I dunno yet.)

Good game so far! Though am I the only one who didn't figure out how to use Miiverse until after W2?

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New Super Mario Bros. U CommunityMatt12/25/2012 7:33 PM

Yoshis can eat Baby Yoshis? That's... a bit disturbing...

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New Super Mario Bros. U CommunityMatt12/25/2012 8:44 PM

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(This, my third Miiverse post ever out of 256, and the first one with a drawing in it, somehow had more Yeahs and more comments than any of my other posts. I think. I don't remember any of the others having 57+ Yeahs or 18+ comments, anyway.)

New Super Mario Bros. U CommunityMatt12/25/2012 9:03 PM

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(I hadn't figured out how to post from in-game yet, but if I had, it would say that the level was Spinning-Star Sky. Not sure what level inspired me to post the one with the vine though.)

I thought of the idea of archiving my Miiverse posts on LJ long before Nintendo announced that Miiverse would be discontinued, in fact! I decided that when I archive/remake PrtSc Land (if I ever get around to that...), I might also include, as bonus features, other stuff I've done in the same style as PSL - which could've included my Miiverse posts since the fact that Miiverse had even fewer drawing tools than MS Paint means that my Miiverse drawings (especially before the introduction of stamps) look similar to the first version of PrtSc Land (PSL being in color notwithstanding). It would've been interesting to compare the two. :)

I'm actually really lucky I decided at the last minute to get a backup of my Miiverse posts!

As much as I still like my Miiverse posts (and many of the other posts that showed up in games I like), in 2014 or so I thought Miiverse in general had gone so downhill that I stopped checking it very often; it had started out as a really positive community, but parts of it didn't stay that way for long.

When I heard that it was going to be shut down in a few months, I thought I'd have to save each of my posts one by one if I wanted a backup of it and decided that I wouldn't bother logging in to do so, but then the day before it was shut down, I was looking up information about the discontinuation and found out that requesting a backup was apparently as easy as logging into Miiverse, pressing a button, and waiting a few weeks. So I decided to do that at the last minute. :D